"Floors are the windows into a facility," as has been said before — and with good reason.

After all, hard surface floors are virtually the first thing patients and visitors see when there's a need for healthcare — be it the floor of a hospital lobby or the entrance to an emergency room, intensive care unit, extended care or ambulatory surgical center.

Likewise, parents, when they're bringing their children to school for the first day of class, look down at the long hallway floors before they look around for their child's classroom.